4koma Gag Battle
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4-koma Gag Battle is a series of Japanese comedy manga book anthologies, written and illustrated by various artists, and published by Kobunsha. Kobunsha has published various mangas for various different video games, under the series, Hinotama Game Comic Series, including various books based on Mario titles. The premise of the books is that they are composed of many short, brief stories told exclusively in the format of four panels, a format which is called Yonkoma in Japan.
An altogether different series of books exists, with the same premise and a similar title, named 4-Koma Gag Battle, for which this series is commonly confused with.
Gallery of Mario-series publications
Super Mario: Yoshi's Island (book one) (1995)
Super Mario: Yoshi's Island (book two) (1996)
Donkey Kong Country (1995)
Super Mario Daishuugou (1996)
Super Mario 64 (1996)
Mario Kart 64 (1997)
Yoshi's Story (1998) (book one)
Yoshi's Story (1998) (book two)
Diddy Kong Racing (1998)
Mario Party (1999)
Donkey Kong 64 (2001)
Super Mario Sunshine (book one) (2002)
Super Mario Sunshine (book two) (2003)
Mario Party 4 (2003)
Mario Party 5 (2004)
Gallery
A page from the Super Mario Sunshine manga
